Favorite poet?

William Blake. Lamb vs. tiger, Grrrrr….I’m also a fan of William Carlos Williams.

Frost or ee cummings

I’m still partial to John Donne, with a little Robert Service on the side. :o)

Robert Frost.

walt whitman or edgar allan poe

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Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
Ogden Nash
Dorothy Parker
T.S. Elliot
Walt Whitman

Most favourite:
Czeslaw Milosz

Close favourites:
Federico Garcia Lorca
Pablo Neruda
Garcilaso de la Vega

And Shel Silverstein

Wallace Stevens
T.S. Eliot
Dylan Thomas
Percy Shelley
William Shakespeare
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
William Wordsworth

William Carlos Williams and Pablo Neruda for me.

“This is just to say
I have eaten the plums
that were
in the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold”

And

“Contra el azul moviendo sus azules,
el mar, y contra el cielo,
unas flores amarillas.

Octubre llega.

Y aunque sea
tan importante el mar desarrollando
su mito, su mision, su levadura,
estalla
sobre la arena el oro
de una sola
planta amarilla
y se amarran
tus ojos
a la tierra,
huyen del magno mar y sus latidos.

Polvo somos, seremos.
Ni aire, ni fuego, ni agua
sino tierra,
solo tierra
seremos
y talvez
unas flores amarillas.”

for me there’s only one: the one and only: Pablo Neruda

Cummings, Donne, and O’Hara are my favorites for all time.

More obscurely (and modernly), I’m also partial to Dina Ben-Lev and Jeffrey McDaniel.

T.S. Elliot
Issa
Robert Hunter
Michael Card

Robert Frost and Terrance Hayes.

Larry Levis
Wallace Stevens
Emily Dickinson
I used to think I liked John Ashbery, but I’m not at all sure of that now.

James Wright
Robert Hayden
Mary Oliver
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
Dylan Thomas
Walt Whitman

How many times has this question been asked?
How many times have I answered Eminem?
Eminem….if you consider him a poet….after all…it’s creative and rhymes.
Even though I don’t do rhyming poems (Haikus for me), he is the best.

Ted Hughes.

Alas for poor Sylvia.

Bukowksi, Plath, Eliot, cummings.
All-time favorites.

also, @daloon: Stevens is SO WONDERFUL. “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” is one of my favorite poems. :]

Another repeated question.
Oh well….whatever
For the third time, Eminem.

@90s_kid – do you know that you’ve answered this question twice? forget repeated questions, what about repeated answers?

Oh yeah…..senior moment

@buster Yeah!

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I also like Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Walt Whitman.

e.e. cummings, Frost, Coleridge(Kubla Khan),Tennyson(Ulysses),Shakespeare(of course), Bulwer-Lytton,Nikki Giovanni,Langston Hughes,James Wright,Robert Hayden,Mary Oliver,
T.S. Eliot,William Carlos Williams,Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson

TS Elliot
William Blake

and don’t chastise me for this next one, even though I know he doesn’t really fit in with the names like Poe and Frost, etc…but…

Jim Morrison

I have “Wilderness” and I love it. If you want to hear him read some of his poetry you can on youtube…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azCon4I7fWA

In English Sylvia Plath.
In Spanish Garcia Lorca, Alberti, MIguel Hernandez.

Another favorite of mine is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha.

Blake.

Arthur Rimbaud I really understand him!

Robert Frost

Edgar Allan Poe, longfellow and W.B. Yeats.